As others have said, you seem shockingly unaware that trees are GROWN specifically for making paper.

NO ONE is cutting down premium "old growth" forests to make paper..

Nice "virtue signal" on your part, too bad you did not spend 5 mins to learn where paper comes from first.

There are TV shows which are made in Canada, and unavailable on amazon prime in Canada, yet are available on amazon prime in the US?

In Canada, amazon prime tries to push me to getting yet another subscription?

There are also shows Amazon prime owns and refuses to broadcast in Canada? You might be able to say that prime doesnt have redist rights on some shows, but their own "prime originals"?

After fragmenting the market like this, what did they expect people would do?

So much THIS!

If they were free, people would complain that you still have to pay property taxes/utilities.

Everyone LOVES to criticize but that same group rarely offers solutions, lest others criticize them.

Here (Ontario, Canada) housing is a major issue for the reason you list : Nobody is big enough to push back and make it happen.

Try and build anything here and you will be NIMBY to death. I ride my bike by an area where they are tying to build low-rise apartments and everywhere you look are signs protesting it.. where should they build?

If you worked for CSIS it is unlikely you would be posting that you worked there, same for the CIA. Did you somehow just transfer to the CIA and as a "foreign national" all the confidential material marked "NOFORN" was suddenly available to you, a foreigner?

Declaring yourself a "spy" in public.. Any chance you have yet to reach the age of majority?

Can you explain why there are countless stories such as this:

NSA staff used spy tools on spouses, ex-lovers: watchdog https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-watchdog...

You keep writing they were not spying on US citizens, but clearly they were or NSA employees would not be using it to spy on friends/family would they?

Did they coin the term "LOVEINT" because this was a one-off situation?

I NEVER subscribe to free trial offers simply because of the number of negative posts about how hard it is to cancel, and the pain involved.

It absolutely does hurt "good actors".

Read the comments on the article itself, it is just full of "i dont want to do this".. so great, don't sideload apps (no one is forcing them to), but why are they so keen on preventing others from doing it as well?

People are literally PROTESTING the closure, but yet here you are, once again with your BS...

The one "lying" clearly is you...

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-walmart-closures-p...

CHICAGO - Activists protested the closure of four Chicago Walmart stores Thursday morning in Chatham.

https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicagoans-blast-walmart...

Community activists gathered at 84th and Stewart in Chatham at the site of one of four Walmarts that is set to close, slamming the retailer’s decision.

“Everything I go into this store, it is packed with people,” said Father Michael Pfleger.

what changed? The laws around prosecuting shoplifters:

"Previously, if you were charged with theft or retail theft, and the value of the item or items taken was over $300 you could be charged with a class 4 felony. A class 4 felony carries with it a penalty of between 1-3 years in prison. The new statute has raised the value of the item to $500."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10112809/Chicago-bl...

https://chicagocrusader.com/shoplifting-a-big-problem-at-loc...

But you just put "wrong" with zero facts, this surely makes you right..

These actions cause the brakes to last a LOT longer. I've never driven an EV but the manual transmission cars i have had needed far fewer brake jobs.

Depends on the car. I had a POS Chevy uplander and had to replace them 3 times. Angry because my Mazda was the same age, same milage and on its original set so i asked the GM mechanic why..

He told me the design. I'm going to guess the Uplander has the cheapest ones available?

But like you, I thought the same thing.. is "bearings" really a thing these days and apparently it is??

I'm never going to buy another "domestic" car again, and this whole "infotainment" mess we see here reinforces my decision.

what a weaird thing to say...

So.. tell us.. where does apple get its SSD's if it is not "commodity"? Do they have their own SSD factory?

Then you write "Apple's SSDs are enterprise-grade"... So like "commodity" right? Meaning others can buy "enterprise grade" SSD's and upgrade their non-apple laptops wtih them if they wanted to?

I can do most things without interacting with the touch screen at all.

Physical knobs and these systems def. do exist.

as a leanring oppertunity, this is what Socratic questioning looks like:

What is an example of Socratic questioning?

What do you mean when you say X? Could you explain that point further? Can you provide an example? Is there a different point of view?

you simply asked negative-framed questions : Why did the regulators approve fission reactors knowing our country has enemies..

Needless to say it is rather radioactive...

But it is easily contained by the water in the pools, and then the dry storage casks it is moved to once it is no longer "thermally hot" and needs constant cooling.

This guy is just your typical anti-nuke posting the classic talking points about all the billions of tonnes of used fuel?

There is a nuclear power plant not far from me. it went "live" in 1973 and all the spent fuel to date is still stored on site.

Step 1 : sit in a pool for around 10 years

Step 2 : sit in a dry canister for a few more decades.

Eventually we need to find a better solution, but the fact remains there is not a whole lot of it.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S173857331...

The studies have already been done, crashing a jet into a nuclear power plant wont do much.

I'm more familiar with Canada's designs and the walls are several M thick of reinforced concrete. Not exactly material known for being easy to break into.

This is from the power plant close by me :

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.8122465,-79.0744714,3a,48.2y,...

warning that you may be shot for entering has a tendency of keeping people away

But we do have Lake Ontario, Niagara falls, etc. Walk down the bridge, pay the 25 or 50 cents and walk to the US side... Niagara falls Canada is a tourist trap, the US side is a state park.

The GTA (Greater Toronto area) will be an interesting experience for you.

Despite the massive size of the country, a lot of the population lives in a thin strip along the US/CAN border.

Population of Alberta 4.371 million

Population of the GTA 5.928 million

Population of Canada 38.25 million

I think shoreline also includes islands, so in lake Ontario's case.. there are a lot of islands and so my point is sort of washed.